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June,” says Pip Harragan , who is receiving a degree in design from UC Davis. “But I don’t really know what my plans are yet.” She says she’s hoping to parlay her degree into an internship – hopefully, one in L.A. – for an interior design firm or something similar, but her dream would be to use those skills for a local sports team like the Lakers or the Galaxy. “Things are so up in the air for me, but all the uncertainty is part of life,” Harragan says. “I’ll take it one step at a time and see where I end up.”
“I am so excited about graduating in
In September, Sunny Kim will graduate from the Boston University School of Management with dual degrees in operations management and finance. While looking for jobs, she’s continuing to bolster her educational credentials through obtaining a Six Sigma Green Belt certificate. “I am looking for more opportunities to learn in the United States,” she says. “After working for two to three years, I am planning to study for an MBA.” The outlook isn’t too scary – she says she can go home to Korea to work for her parents’ firm, but would prefer to stay in the U.S. for now.
“Senior year has flown by,” says
In her last quarter at Santa Clara University,
Marlise Knechtle, a publicrelations major at USC. At the moment, she’s working in media communications for an online cosmetics retailer and plans to continue in a similar field after graduation. Her plans? Living in West Los Angeles and commuting downtown for a newly accepted job at the staffing-services company Insight Global. “I look forward to catching up with all of my FSHA friends this summer before we all go out into the working world!” she says.
Mary Knauf has already been making her way back up the Hill – this spring, she began working as an assistant coach for FSHA’s JV softball team. She’ll soon graduate from Loyola Marymount with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and see where life takes her. “After I graduate, my goal is to get a couple of part-time jobs and move into an apartment with a friend for the next year,” she says, adding that she wants to make some money and live on her own before grad school. (One college activity she’ll continue is cohosting a show on LMU’s radio station, KXLU.) She says that she’s up to the challenge: “FSHA made me comfortable with who I am and confident in my view of the world, two qualities that I believe are essential in getting through the dreaded ‘unknown’ that is life after college.”
Erin Hartwig has a fairly light course load, which has opened up her schedule for a high-powered internship. “The Hoffman Agency is a global, independent PR firm whose clients are in the high-tech sector,” says Hartwig, a double major in marketing and economics. She says she’ll continue her internship there through graduation and the summer while also applying for full-time positions in the Bay Area. “I also plan on eventually going back to school for a master’s in communications or PR, or an MBA, so I will be studying for the GRE and take it by the time I graduate,” she says. 23